Thursday, November 20, 2008

I just had an idea to search what are the countries that have supercomputers and what are the operating system they are using. Just done a google search and find this marvelous site.

I just search for the countries that uses top 500 supercomputers. As usual US got the first place with more than 50%. What a good thing, Our neighbour India also having 8 out of top 500 supercomputers.Its a greate achivement I think. Unfortunatly Sri Lanka do not have any... :(

Here are the statistics for the November 2008.

Countries

Count

Share %

Australia

1

0.20 %

Belgium

2

0.40 %

Brazil

2

0.40 %

Bulgaria

1

0.20 %

Canada

2

0.40 %

China

15

3.00 %

Denmark

3

0.60 %

Finland

1

0.20 %

France

26

5.20 %

Germany

25

5.00 %

India

8

1.60 %

Ireland

1

0.20 %

Israel

1

0.20 %

Italy

11

2.20 %

Japan

18

3.60 %

Korea, South

1

0.20 %

Malaysia

1

0.20 %

Mexico

1

0.20 %

Netherlands

3

0.60 %

New Zealand

4

0.80 %

Norway

2

0.40 %

Poland

6

1.20 %

Russia

8

1.60 %

Slovenia

1

0.20 %

South Africa

1

0.20 %

Spain

6

1.20 %

Sweden

8

1.60 %

Switzerland

4

0.80 %

Taiwan

2

0.40 %

United Kingdom

45

9.00 %

United States

290

58.00 %

Totals

500

100%

Now the interesting part, Operating Systems they are using. The interesting fact is that more than 85% in Linux. Windows got only 1% share. Can you imagine that??? Here are the statistics.

Can you remember Windows 3.0??? One of the first UI based OS we have used. I can still remember the first day I hahve used windows 3.1 in a home of my friend. The first graphical experience, by typing an DOS command and start GUI with few tools and use the PaintBrush to draw an image. Sill remember the first drawing I had using Windows 3.0.

But this article is not about how I used Windows 3.x to draw an image. Its about the end of Windows 3.x by Microsoft by stopping the issue of licence for it. Windows 3.x started in May 1990 and from 1st of November 2008 Microsoft has stop the issuing of licence for it.